Literary studies: fiction Books

Book SynopsisThis collection of essays explores the role of child characters in horror, fantasy, and science fiction literature and films from a variety of critical approaches - from textual analyses to psychological, historical, and gender- and ethnicity-based interpretations.

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Book SynopsisAt once criminal and saviour, clown and creator, antagonist and mediator, the character of trickster has made frequent appearances in works by writers the world over. Trickster Lives offers thirteen new and challenging interpretations of trickster in American writing, including essays on works by African American, Native American, Pacific Rim, and Latino writers.Trade ReviewTrickster Lives represents a significant new perspective on American literature,as well as an important contribution to trickster scholarship, not simply because it contains excellent original essays on both well-known and lesser-known works, but because its interdisciplinary approach broadens our sense of what literary studies can be."" — Jeanne Rosier Smith, author of Writing Tricksters: Mythic Gambols in American Ethnic Fiction""For analysis and argument about trickster in Native Hawaiian texts, Brer Rabbit tales, Cherokee narratives, Erdrich novels, and selected Latino texts—and for challenging us to think about what is and is not appropriately called trickster—the volume is quite valuable."" — Americas

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Book SynopsisThis study explores the dualities that inform O'Connor's fiction: extremes of faith and reason; acceptance and revolt; cool narrative and explosive action; and sacramental vision and a primary intuition of reality.

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Book SynopsisA collection of four stories and a novella by Japanese modernist writer Ishikawa Jun. His works address issues of political and artistic significance, and in the introduction and critical essays, Tyler emphasizes Ishikawa's importance as a resistance writer.

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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Walter Hinderer and Daniel O. Dahlstrom On the Art of Tragedy Translated by Daniel O. Dahlstrom On the Sublime Translated by Daniel O. Dahlstrom On the Pathetic Translated by Daniel O. Dahlstrom Concerning the Sublime Translated by Daniel O. Dahlstrom Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man Translated by Elizabeth M. Wilkinson and L.A. Willoughby On Naive and Sentimental Poetry Translated by Daniel O. Dahlstrom

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Book SynopsisThomas Mann (1875-1955) won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1929. This is a collection of his shorter works. "Death in Venice", is a poetic meditation on art and beauty, where the dying composer Aschenbach (modelled on Gustav Mahler) becomes fixated by the young boy Tadzio.Table of ContentsForeword: Harold Bloom Introduction: Frederick A. Lubich NOVELLAS Tonio Kroger Translated by David Luke Tristan Translated by David Luke Death in Venice Translated by David Luke The Blood of the Walsungs Translated by Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter Mario and the Magician Translated by Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter The Tables of the Law Translated by Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter ESSAYS Freud and the Future Translated by Helen Tracey Lowe-Porter A Brother Germany and the Germans

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Book SynopsisTo what extent has feminism benefited women? Arguing that so far feminism has failed to deliver the promised benefits for many women and has even proved harmful, this text brings together women's voices, from Bridget Jones to Simone de Beauvoir, to provide a radical rethink for the 21st century.Table of ContentsThe Bridget Jones Syndrome * Stubborn Girls * Romantic Illusions * 'Singing and Dancing that Womanhood is Beautiful' * Let's hope it's not true * A Theory of Education as if Darwin Mattered * Big Sister is Watching You * Celebrating the Gender Gap

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Book SynopsisKazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, has produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general public. This book presents critical essays on Kazuo Ishiguro.Trade Review"Kazuo Ishiguro is a magnificently diverse and elusive writer and this volume's rich multiplicity of perspectives suits him perfectly. It is required reading for those who are studying or simply enchanted by his fiction - criticism at its most absorbing and spirited." - Professor Richard Bradford, Professor of Literary History & Theory at the University of Ulster, UK"This illuminating collection recontextualizes all of Kazuo Ishiguro's novels and his often-neglected short stories; it offers new and exciting critical insights into his literary craft as well as examines his work in cinema and visual arts. Editors Groes and Matthews have generated a timely and engrossing text on this important contemporary British author, one that is sure to be referenced often by readers and critics of Ishiguro's works."- Cynthia Wong, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Colorado Denver, USAThis expertly edited volume on Ishiguro's work, which concludes with an interview with the author, should prove invaluable to scholars and students working on his fiction- whether on single novels or stories, or his work as a whole. -- Routledge ABES... the chapters in this book are a valuable contribution to the increasing body of work on Ishiguro. -- The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 90Table of ContentsPreface - Haruki Murakami; General Introduction; Biography / Chronology; 1: Reading Never Let Me Go, John Mullan (University College London); 2: 'I don't want to think about things too much': Ishiguro's Short Fiction in Context, Brian W. Shaffer (Rhodes College); 3. Ishiguro's Writing for the Screen, Paul-Daniel Veyret (University of Bordeaux); 4. The Unconsoled as Minor Literature, Tim Jarvis; 5. Myth, Mortality and Transcendence in Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day, J'annine Jobling (Liverpool Hope University); 6. The construction of gender identity in A Pale View of Hills, An Artist of the Floating World and The Remains of the Day, Justine Baillie (University of Greenwich); 7. Rereading Never Let Me Go, Mark Currie (University of East Anglia); 8. Of Vision and Blindness: Kazuo's thinking about the First and Second World War, Sean Matthews; 9.Cultural Amnesia in The Unconsoled and Never Let Me Go, Julika Griem (Technische Universitat Darmstadt); 10. Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro by Sean Matthews (University of Nottingham); Further Reading; Index.

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Book SynopsisA new approach to the field of inter-American literary studies that provides insight into Faulkner's impact and other commonalities among key writers of the South and Spanish America.

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Book SynopsisA poet of immense moral authority, Milosz writes with the amazing clarity that issues from a precise vision. In these later poems, the poems of older age, he takes a long look back at the catastrophic upheavals of the 20th century; yet despite the soberness of his themes, he writes with the lightness of touch found only in the great masters.

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Book SynopsisLeonidas Witherall, Phoebe Atwood Taylor's other detective, inhabits a suburb of Boston named Dalton. One of its most colorful residents, he is the proprietor of a prestigious boys' school and instantly recognizable by all as William Shakespeare's remarkable look-alike. Few people, however, know him as Morgatroyd Jones, author of the popular and flamboyant Lieutenant Haseltine adventure novels. But like his own fictional hero, Witherall's outrageous escapades mix slapstick and suspense like no one else's.

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